Gerbillus (Gerbillus) nigeriae Thomas and Hinton 1920

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1230

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Gerbillus (Gerbillus) nigeriae Thomas and Hinton 1920
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Gerbillus (Gerbillus) nigeriae Thomas and Hinton 1920 View in CoL

Gerbillus (Gerbillus) nigeriae Thomas and Hinton 1920 View in CoL , Novit. Zool., 27: 317.

Type Locality: Nigeria, Farniso, near Kano.

Vernacular Names: Nigerian Gerbil.

Distribution: Recorded from Niger, N Nigeria, Burkina Faso, and SW Mauritania.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Gerbillus . Lay (1983) maintained this species as valid even though it has been synonymized with G. agag by some workers ( Pavlinov et al., 1990; F. Petter, 1975 b). Complex chromosomal polymorphism characterizes G. nigeriae ( Volobouev et al., 1988 b) , and left-handed Z-DNA was detected in metaphasic chromosomes in one sample (Viegas-Péquignot et al., 1982). Karyotypic sampling from Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Mauritania exhibit impressive variation in 2n (60-74) and FNa (116-114) ( Dobigny et al., 2002 b; Gautun et al., 1985; Granjon et al. 1997 a; Tranier, 1975 a; Volobouev et al., 1988 b). Ecology and membership in small mammal community of coastal SW Mauritania documented by Granjon et al. (2002 b). Gerbillus nigeriae is regarded as one of the nine unambiguously identified species of gerbils occurring in the West African Sahelian zone ( Granjon et al., 2002 a).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Gerbillus

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Gerbillus (Gerbillus) nigeriae Thomas and Hinton 1920

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
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Gerbillus (Gerbillus) nigeriae

Thomas and Hinton 1920: 317
1920
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